plate

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

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plate1 /pleɪt/ ●●● S2 W2 noun  1  food 食物 [countable] a) DFUa flat and usually round dish that you eat from or serve food on 盘，碟 The plates were piled high with rice. 盘子里都堆满了米饭。 a dinner plate 餐碟 b) (also plateful)AMOUNT the amount of food that is on a plate 〔食物〕一盘[碟]所盛之量plate of He’s eaten a whole plate of french fries. 他吃了整整一盘炸薯条。 ► Do not use plate when you mean ‘food cooked in a particular way as a meal’. Use dish: the chef who created this dish (NOT this plate)当表示菜肴时，不要用 plate，而要用 dish: the chef who created this dish (不说 this plate) 首创这道菜肴的厨师2  sign 标牌 [countable]TTC a flat piece of metal with words or numbers on it, for example on a door or a car 〔印有文字或数字的〕金属牌；门牌；车牌 The brass plate on the door said ‘Dr Rackman’. 黄铜门牌上写着“雷克曼博士”。number/license/registration plate (=on a car) 车牌 Did anyone see the car’s license plate? 有谁看到那辆汽车的车牌了吗？ → L-plate, nameplate3. have a lot/enough on your plate informal to have a lot of problems to deal with or problems to worry about 要应付的问题很多，要操心的事情很多4  protective covering 保护性覆盖物 [countable] a) technicalHBA one of the thin sheets of bone, horn etc that covers and protects the outside of some animals 〔骨质、角质等的〕盾片，鳞甲 b) PMWa thin sheet of metal used to protect something 金属护板[片]metal/steel/iron plates The shoes had metal plates attached to the heels. 那双鞋后跟钉有金属片。5. earth’s surface 地球表面 [countable] technicalHEG one of the very large sheets of rock that form the surface of the Earth 板块 → plate tectonics6  gold/silver 金/银 a) gold/silver plateHCM ordinary metal with a thin covering of gold or silver 镀金/镀银的金属 b) DFU[uncountable] things such as plates, cups, forks, or knives made of gold or silver 金/银餐具7  hand/give/offer somebody something on a plate to let someone get or achieve something easily, without much effort from them 把某事物拱手送给某人 I worked hard for what I’ve got. It wasn’t handed to me on a plate. 我现在拥有的一切都是辛苦挣来的，并不是人家白送的。8  pictures/photos 图片/照片 [countable] a) TCNa sheet of metal that has been cut or treated in a special way so that words or pictures can be printed from its surface 〔印刷用的〕金属版，印版 copper printing plates 铜印版 b) TCNPICTUREa picture in a book, printed on good-quality paper and usually coloured 〔书中的〕整页（彩色）插图 c) TCPa thin sheet of glass used especially in the past in photography, with chemicals on it that are sensitive to light 〔尤指过去摄影用的〕感光板[片]9. DSBbaseball 棒球 [countable usually singular] the place where the person hitting the ball stands 本垒板10  COMPETITION 竞赛the ... Plate used in the names of sports competitions or races in which the winner gets a silver plate 银碟赛〔用于奖品为银碟的竞赛名称中〕 This horse won the Galway Plate. 这匹马在戈尔韦银碟赛中获胜了。11  teeth 牙齿 [countable] a) MHa thin piece of plastic shaped to fit inside a person’s mouth, into which false teeth are fixed 假牙床，假牙托 b) MI British English a thin piece of plastic with wires fixed to it, that some people wear in their mouth to make their teeth straight 牙箍，牙齿矫正器 SYN British English brace → hotplate

Examples from the Corpus

plate• The engine model number is on a plate just above the spark plug.• When the flames die out, transfer the rabbit to a plate.• The lateral and ventral arm plates have distinctive transverse ridges most noticeable in dry specimens.• The ventral interradial areas are covered with large plates like those of the dorsal surface, spinelets may be present.• Police found the car in Knoxville, Tenn., with an Arizona license plate in the trunk.• Too many plates and you're asking for trouble.• Place chili on plate and top with quail.• The reptile's body is covered with horny protective plates.• a salad plate• Doctors had to insert a steel plate to repair the damage done to his head.• This, of course, relates directly to the plate histories of the two continents.• A little boy was washing plates and cups in a bowl of water glutinous with grease, food matter and drowned flies.plate of• The waiter brought us two heaping plates of spaghetti.number/license/registration plate• The seven were riding in a van with Missouri license plates that pulled into the path of the tractor-trailer rig.• And remember that it is illegal to drive with an obscured license plate.• What better suspect than some one with an out-of-state license plate, parked so very near the scene of the crime?• A parent who was taking her children to school noted down the number plate.• Cut out two thin rectangles for the number plates and leave to dry on non-stick paper before securing on.• He said he was a but I had the license plate number.• The date on the license plate was 1967, which would make Billy Pilgrim forty-four years old.• Jim was so upset that he sold the burgundy car - and transferred the number plate to the Rolls.metal/steel/iron plates• Or magnetic rugs for men who have metal plates in their heads?• In Sheffield they made steel plates and armoured plates for their ships.• As for the ships, steel plates meant to repair them have found their way into the homes of Vladivostok's elite.• Four rounds after people fall in, the metal plates close again.• Eleven of the steel plates themselves, incidentally, are also included in the show.• His right and left wrist were the worst affected and his body rejected the metal plates and wires inserted into them.• Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight.• It met the wood in massive cylinders, thirteen feet across, made of inch-thick wrought-iron plates riveted together.plate2 verb [transitive]  be plated with something a) DCBto be covered with a thin covering of gold or silver 用〔金或银〕覆镀，镀上〔金或银〕 a beautiful necklace, plated with 22-carat gold 一条漂亮的22开镀金项链gold-plated/silver-plated a gold-plated watch 镀金手表 b) COVERto be covered in sheets of a hard material such as metal 用〔金属板等坚硬材料〕覆盖 The ship had been heavily plated with protective sheets. 那艘船加装了厚厚的护板。→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

plate• To plate, look for the instructions in your manual, it is quite easy, once you are threaded up.• The jawless fish, even though their heads were heavily plated with bone, had chinks in their armour to accommodate eyes.Origin plate1 1. (1400-1500) French plat “plate, dish”, from plat “flat”, from Vulgar Latin plattus, probably from Greek platys “broad, flat”2. (1200-1300) Old French plat “flat”3. (1300-1400) Partly from Old French plat “plate, piece of silver”, partly from Old Spanish plata “silver”

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plate¹ S2 W2 /pleɪt/ noun1.  FOOD  [countable]
  a. a flat and usually round dish that you eat from or serve food on:
    The plates were piled high with rice.
    a dinner plate
  b. (also plateful) the amount of food that is on a plate
    plate of
    He’s eaten a whole plate of french fries.
  ► Do not use plate when you mean ‘food cooked in a particular way as a meal’. Use dish: the chef who created this dish (NOT this plate)
2.  SIGN  [countable] a flat piece of metal with words or numbers on it, for example on a door or a car:
    The brass plate on the door said ‘Dr Rackman’.
    number/license/registration plate (=on a car)
    Did anyone see the car’s license plate? ⇨ L-plate, nameplate
3. have a lot/enough on your plate informal to have a lot of problems to deal with or problems to worry about
4.  PROTECTIVE COVERING  [countable]
  a. technical one of the thin sheets of bone, horn etc that covers and protects the outside of some animals
  b. a thin sheet of metal used to protect something
    metal/steel/iron plates
    The shoes had metal plates attached to the heels.
5.  EARTH’S SURFACE  [countable] technical one of the very large sheets of rock that form the surface of the Earth ⇨ plate tectonics
6.  GOLD/SILVER
  a. gold/silver plate ordinary metal with a thin covering of gold or silver
  b. [uncountable] things such as plates, cups, forks, or knives made of gold or silver
7. hand/give/offer somebody something on a plate to let someone get or achieve something easily, without much effort from them:
    I worked hard for what I’ve got. It wasn’t handed to me on a plate.
8.  PICTURES/PHOTOS  [countable]
  a. a sheet of metal that has been cut or treated in a special way so that words or pictures can be printed from its surface:
    copper printing plates
  b. a picture in a book, printed on good-quality paper and usually coloured
  c. a thin sheet of glass used especially in the past in photography, with chemicals on it that are sensitive to light
9.  BASEBALL  [countable usually singular] the place where the person hitting the ball stands
10.  COMPETITION the ... Plate used in the names of sports competitions or races in which the winner gets a silver plate:
    This horse won the Galway Plate.
11.  TEETH  [countable]
  a. a thin piece of plastic shaped to fit inside a person’s mouth, into which false teeth are fixed
  b. British English a thin piece of plastic with wires fixed to it, that some people wear in their mouth to make their teeth straight
   SYN  brace British English
⇨ hotplate

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plate² verb [transitive]
be plated with something
  a. to be covered with a thin covering of gold or silver:
    a beautiful necklace, plated with 22-carat gold
    gold-plated/silver-plated
    a gold-plated watch
  b. to be covered in sheets of a hard material such as metal:
    The ship had been heavily plated with protective sheets.